I use Ecosia as my primary search and Google if I don't find something. Most of the stuff we search for isn't in one of those niche sites only Google indexes. Especially when searching in English.
If you find a host that uses renewables you help fund the development of renewables and slightly reduce the usage of fossil. We can fly a bit less and choose Zoom conference over flying. We can sometimes take the train over flying. We can avoid cruises and try to pick an electric car as our next car. These are small things that have a very small impact overall but they help signal financially to policy makers how important this issue is for us.
I understand your points, but still somewhere somehow we still rotate to the same thing. Because, you may not fly and use Zoom, but even Zoom and all these other internet platforms feed on some servers which in most cases run on fossil energy. Electric cars are still a long way from setting up refilling stations that cover the entire planet. There are even cases of electric cars recharging by using fuel generators. We also want to go to the moon, and to build colonies on Mars and Ganymede, but we can't travel to space with solar power.
I believe the steps have to be taken, however small they're, but we can only do too much, unless if we discover a revolutionary alternative in the near future (like fusion energy).
There are scales. A flight produces many orders of magnitude more pollution than any Zoom call. We don't need to stop pollution entirely, just reduce it to manageable reasonable amounts and plant more trees in the process. Maybe find technological solutions for carbon capture etc. Individually and at small scale each of those is insignificant but at large scales they can make an impact.
Even if we find a magical solution like fusion we'd still need to replace all the energy plants in the world and get everyone to use electric energy and do carbon capture. There's no "magic bullet", we'll need to do all of these things AND hope for SEVERAL magic bullets AND advocate for heavier government regulation.
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I use Ecosia as my primary search and Google if I don't find something. Most of the stuff we search for isn't in one of those niche sites only Google indexes. Especially when searching in English.
If you find a host that uses renewables you help fund the development of renewables and slightly reduce the usage of fossil. We can fly a bit less and choose Zoom conference over flying. We can sometimes take the train over flying. We can avoid cruises and try to pick an electric car as our next car. These are small things that have a very small impact overall but they help signal financially to policy makers how important this issue is for us.
I understand your points, but still somewhere somehow we still rotate to the same thing. Because, you may not fly and use Zoom, but even Zoom and all these other internet platforms feed on some servers which in most cases run on fossil energy. Electric cars are still a long way from setting up refilling stations that cover the entire planet. There are even cases of electric cars recharging by using fuel generators. We also want to go to the moon, and to build colonies on Mars and Ganymede, but we can't travel to space with solar power.
I believe the steps have to be taken, however small they're, but we can only do too much, unless if we discover a revolutionary alternative in the near future (like fusion energy).
There are scales. A flight produces many orders of magnitude more pollution than any Zoom call. We don't need to stop pollution entirely, just reduce it to manageable reasonable amounts and plant more trees in the process. Maybe find technological solutions for carbon capture etc. Individually and at small scale each of those is insignificant but at large scales they can make an impact.
Even if we find a magical solution like fusion we'd still need to replace all the energy plants in the world and get everyone to use electric energy and do carbon capture. There's no "magic bullet", we'll need to do all of these things AND hope for SEVERAL magic bullets AND advocate for heavier government regulation.